Friends, colleagues, and fellow travellers: apologies for the mass email. Please circulate this widely in your networks! *CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: "Computer Class" * Summer Institute at the Centre for Culture and Technology: *JUNE 1–5, 2026* Application Deadline: extended to *MARCH 15* Computer Class is a one-week seminar-style institute for graduate students and practitioners in artistic, humanistic, and social-scientific fields who are interested in coding, computer history, and critical use of technology. Computer Class brings us back to primary school. We play, dream, doodle, futz, make, break, and debug computer programs. We draw pictures with code. We make our own chatbots. We read theory and philosophy and psychoanalysis. We work with primary documents from the history of computing. We learn new ways of getting on with these strange machines we call computers. We also decide how we spend our time together: Computer Class is participant-driven, dedicated to the question of what we actually want to do with our computers—and how to expand our desire for, with, and around computers. All are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to humanities and fine arts graduate students. Computer Class is targeted towards students in terminal degree programs, such as MFA or PhD programs. Participants should have substantial interest in digital media culture or aesthetics, the history of computing, creative, or expressive coding, media theory, critical code studies, or other relevant artistic or humanistic research practice. Learn more at computerclass.ca.
